Amazon has been granted FAA permission to test its aerial drones for delivering packages. Amazon Amazon’s ambitions to use drones to deliver packages may get off the ground yet. The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday issued an “experimental airworthiness certificate” to Amazon, allowing the Internet retail giant to conduct research, development and crew training for …
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Google on Monday unveiled its new kid-friendly YouTube app, the company’s first product built exclusively in-house with children in mind. As CNET first reported last week, the YouTube Kids app for Android devices is now available for free in the Google Play marketplace. At the same time, Google launched the app for iOS devices in Apple’s App Store. The app …
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Few of us like to do our taxes. Entering numbers over and over, lengthy questionnaires and looming fearing of a large tax payment all make the yearly process feel tedious and exhausting. Luckily, in recent years our smartphones have become great tools to manage your taxes from start to finish. With an army of apps, you can take the sting …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Editors’ Note: This article was originally published April 24, 2012, and has been updated to reflect current offerings. If 2014 isn’t known as the year of wearables, it could be known as the year of cloud storage. Between updates to Google Drive and Dropbox, and revamped offerings from Apple’s iCloud Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, access …
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Now playing: Watch this: Make your own mini boom box 4:00 In a time where unlimited access to an infinite catalog of instantly available music, I’ve never been more sentimental about my old mixtapes. There’s something about the act of creating a mixtape that’s gone missing from today’s music culture. More than the music, a mixtape contained and symbolized the …
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Amazon’s Prime Air prototype. Amazon Amazon is asking the federal government if it can start testing drones in its own backyard to speed up its development of Prime Air shipping, according to a letter published to the Federal Aviation Administration’s site on Thursday. If granted, Amazon will be able to test its drones outside of the testing sites designated by …
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Today Samsung announced official pricing on its vast array of new 2014 TVs, including numerous curved and 4K/UHD sets first introduced at CES 2014 last January. They ain’t cheap. Samsung’s 4K models start at $2,499 for a 50-inch size. Compare that to Vizio, for example, which is charging $999 for its cheapest 4K 50-incher. On paper, the Vizio even has …
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Which store has the best deals on HDMI cables? Which Web site has the best selection? Which HDMI cable is right for your TV? Answers to these questions, and more, in the definitive (if I do say so myself) HDMI cable buyers guide: First off, cheap cables will produce the exact same picture and sound quality as expensive cables. Check …
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There was a time not so long ago when MP3 players were a hot and essential technology, and Apple’s best-selling product was the iPod. Now with smartphones and tablets, though, there are many other devices that make great music players. But even if the MP3 player’s best days are waning, there are still a number of great products available. Here …
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